Word: fraud
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Wenger found the mass "marked with the seal of the 17th century, so fertile in its greatness." All in all, France felt proud of a glorious relic of its past-until the bubble burst, two weeks later. The mass, Musicologist Felix Raugel harrumphed to his astounded colleagues, was a fraud and a hoax...
...student who replied to a secretly code-marked questionnaire said last night that he "strongly disapproved of such dishonest procedures and indicated that he would report any attempts by the firm to follow up the firm postal authorities as mail fraud...
Point of No Return. In Milwaukee, Michael Shapiro was sentenced to three years in prison for income tax fraud, won a stay of sentence until he could finish making out his 1951 tax statement...
...Symington's first jobs when he took over the scandal-ridden RFC last spring was to probe the RFC's $80 million loan to the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad. Earlier, New Hampshire's Senator Charles Tobey had charged that there was "fraud and collusion" between RFC and railroad officials in the granting of the 1944 loan. Last week Joseph J. Smith Jr., Symington's special investigator and onetime government attorney, turned in his report. Smith's conclusion: "There was no fraud, collusion or illegality involved . . . The RFC would probably have received more favorable treatment...
...years. Said Brannan lightheartedly: "Five million dollars worth [of grain] could almost slip through cracks in the floor." Furthermore, he was pleased that no one in the committee had accused Agriculture of skulduggery. Said he as he left the hearing: "Our case is made. They don't claim fraud-just bad management." The committee was far from satisfied. It ordered a thoroughgoing investigation into the CCC to find out why the shortages were not discovered sooner...